AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
Following part one of this series that covered XR's presence at CES broadly, we're back to zero in on a subset: AR glasses. They were in full force at CES, though spread over miles of suites and strip waypoints. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Netflix isn’t planning to launch a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro, which is an odd move coming from the streaming video giant. According to a Bloomberg report, Netflix isn’t launching an app on Vision Pro, instead offering its streaming service through the web. This marks a reversal of its initial intention to allow the iPad version to run on Vision Pro.
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AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
This week on Reality Bytes, we look at SAG-AFTRA’s new AI regulations, Steam’s retraction on its AI policies, and an all-purpose robot made with a global effort. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
Road to VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Saudi Arabia has recently injected more than half a billion dollars into augmented reality company Magic Leap, which it hopes will rival Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund gained majority share of the US-based Magic Leap in January 2023, widening its stake in the AR hardware creator with a deal tallying $450 million.
Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions
To avoid awkward and sometimes disastrous learning content, instructional designers must use authentic translation in the right context to get optimal results. For example, even a simple phrase like “got milk” translates to “are you lactating” in Mexico. Can you imagine what a straight translation might do to your course? With over 317 million people in the US and over 6.7 billion potential customers in the world, personalizing training seems logical.
AR Insider
JANUARY 18, 2024
Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Magic Leap's new funding and a post-CES week in XR. This post appeared first on AR Insider.
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Charlie Fink
JANUARY 18, 2024
Saudi Arabia's additional $590 million investment in Magic Leap is not good news.
Road to VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Bulletstorm (2011) is the sort of epic single-player shooter that’s all about running and gunning through an explosive linear campaign while chewing the fat with some wise-cracking sidekicks. It’s an interesting choice as a VR port; it has the promise of big set pieces and production value that should hold up well even 13 years later, but a lot of the moving parts just don’t fit together well in VR, which is a shame for such a frenetic, action-packed adventure.
Upload VR
JANUARY 18, 2024
Varjo Aero, the company's first and only consumer-focused headset, is no longer being sold. Aero was a tethered PC VR headset that launched in 2021 with the highest angular resolution on the consumer market, a position it solely held until Pimax Crystal last year tied with it. All Varjo's previous headsets were for businesses only - Aero was a new direction in also offering a product targeted at consumers.
Anand Tech
JANUARY 18, 2024
Following the latest legal defeat in Apple's ongoing patent infringement fight over blood oxygen sensors, the company is set to remove its blood oxygen measurement feature from its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 sold in the U.S. The decision comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit declined to extend a pause on an import ban imposed by the U.S.
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With a rapidly changing economy, Avangrid Renewables looked to virtual reality to develop a standardized form of immersive training in order to onboard and upskill technicians faster than ever before.
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JANUARY 18, 2024
Turning Apple Vision Pro's Digital Crown is a bit like tuning your reality. Apple Watch owners will be familiar with the Digital Crown. Early iPhone owners can recall the satisfying physical click of pressing its singular button. Anyone who remembers an iPod should be able to recall the circular motion on its wheel. On Apple Vision Pro, it is a dial on top that jogs you along the spectrum of immersion so quickly it feels like magic.
VR Fitness
JANUARY 18, 2024
XR League announces Racket Club singles and doubles leagues season 1 set to begin January 22. Both XRL and Resolution Games’ Racket Club were launched in December and continue the tradition of VR sports that began with the release of consumer headsets HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in 2016. Continue reading on VR Fitness Insider.
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JANUARY 18, 2024
The first Super Fruit Ninja screenshots tease spatial gaming on Apple Vision Pro, and show the passthrough quality. The Fruit Ninja series was a classic of the early iOS era, started off as a paid iPhone and iPod Touch app in 2010 and selling millions of units in a matter of months. The series came to SteamVR and PlayStation VR in 2016 as Fruit Ninja VR, and to Oculus Quest at launch in 2019.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
JANUARY 18, 2024
It’s January, and the XR space is barreling forward as usual. Despite the holiday and new year period, the XR industry rushed out of the gates this month, with CES 2024 leading to significant announcements that could shake up the enterprise XR market. Following last year, which saw the XR space experience a down-tick from a major 2022, 2024 is now looking to be a more busy year with major computing firms, most notably Apple, entering the XR device market and potentially spurring another wa
Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon
Remote meetings are here to stay - and many are BORING. If you are trying to engage your learners (or any audience), compelling content is critical. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong! Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation.
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JANUARY 18, 2024
Grimlord, a Soulslike-inspired VR action RPG, is now available on Quest App Lab. Developed by Metalcat using Unreal Engine 4, Grimlord first appeared last year in Steam Early Access and the Quest version currently features equivalent content to the PC VR release. Described as a "classic action RPG" inspired by Soulslike games, Grimlord promises a campaign mode with challenging enemies, collectible treasures, physics-driven combat and crafting for armor and weapons. 0:00 / 1:52 1× Presently, Grim
XR Today - Augmented Reality tag
JANUARY 18, 2024
Last week, at CES 2024, Ross Rosenberg, the CEO of Magic Leap, and Daniel Diez, the firm’s CTO , spoke to VentureBeat on the current state of Magic Leap’s roadmap following a busy 2023, which saw the firm undergo a major leadership shake-up. Diez noted that while Magic Leap did not have a presence on the CES 2024 floor, the firm was active in private suites to match its “go-to-market” part of its outreach journey while also “helping customers connect with specific
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JANUARY 18, 2024
WIMO Games, the developer of Micro Machines: Mini Challenge Mayhem and Battle Bow, has shut down. Though the Texas-based studio or its CEO haven't released a formal statement yet regarding it's closure, yesterday's layoffs were corroborated by multiple employees over LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter). In a statement to Kotaku , associate software engineer Walter Hill confirmed that 35 people were employed by WIMO Games.
Oculus
JANUARY 18, 2024
Grab your virtual putter and prepare for an extraordinary journey departing from Port Eiffel—a Gilded Age airport for lighter-than-air ships docked high above Paris as.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
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JANUARY 18, 2024
Netflix subscribers will have to access the streaming service on the web if they want to watch on Apple Vision Pro. In a statement given to Bloomberg , Netflix said it didn't make a visionOS app and that its iPad app won't be available on visionOS either. Instead, Netflix recommends Vision Pro owners access it via the web browser. Apple previously announced that iPad & iPhone apps are available on the visionOS App Store "by default" and developers have to intentionally opt-out if they don't
VR Fitness
JANUARY 18, 2024
XR League announces Racket Club singles and doubles leagues season 1 set to begin January 22. Both XRL and Resolution Games’ Racket Club were launched in December and continue the tradition of VR sports that began with the release of consumer headsets HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in 2016.
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JANUARY 18, 2024
For Walkabout Mini Golf's adaptation of Jules Verne's Around The World In 80 Days, its designers set the course atop the newly-built Eiffel Tower above a to-scale recreation of Paris as it appeared for the World's Fair in 1889. The $3.99 paid add-on course is now available on the official stores of Meta Quest , SteamVR , PlayStation VR2 , and Pico. We toured through the new course with former Disney imagineer Don Carson and Walkabout creator Lucas Martell, showing off the team's work on its newe
Oculus
JANUARY 18, 2024
It’s been 12 years since Bulletstorm first launched its unique brand of hilarious ultraviolence. And today, Incuvo transports players back into the shoes of hot-headed.
Speaker: Treion Muller, Chief Strategy Officer at ELB Learning
Since when has learning and development (L&D) become such a negative experience with its intended learners? Could it be because learners have been conditioned by very poor learning experiences over the past two decades, combined with the kinks of technological innovation? Or is it because learning has typically been designed as a one-size-fits-all solution, despite the fact that humans are not clones?
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